First you had Rep. Cynthia McKinney slugging a Capitol police officer for daring to stop her after she bypassed a security checkpoint while not wearing the pin that identifies her as a member of Congress. Then, early this morning, Roll Call reports that Rep. Patrick Kennedy nearly hit a Capitol Police cruiser and instead smashed […]
National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru has a short post on The Corner pointing out the decision by the D.C. Circuit which allows terminally ill patients to use non-FDA approved drugs. I can't improve on Ponnuru's succinct take: "Right policy, wrong branch of government."
You know that whole "culture of corruption" thing has got to be getting pretty old. First you've got the Mollohan thing (D-W.Va.) and now you've got Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.). Federal authorities ratcheted up their case against Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, on Wednesday, when a Kentucky businessman admitted in court to paying more than […]
I had read this piece by Christopher Hitchens the other day but failed to link to it due to illness and overwork. (I've come down with a nasty cold and worked a minimum of 10.5 hours each of the last three days. At this point I was kinda hoping that I had contracted the Black […]